Need help settign up security on home network.

Which operating system(s) are you using?

XP Home on all computers

Disable the Guest account on your computers.
You should then get prompted for username/password.

Simply enter a username and password local to that PC

Guest Account on Windows XP


...... or

Set the permission on all shares to only grant access to specific users. When you try to connect with a user that is not allowed access a username/password prompt should pop up

XP and filesharing

I believe setting security and share permissions is only possible in XP Pro. Home offers only simple file sharing.

Basically I want to do the same as above. I have several XP Pro Pc's networked fot Web Access and File sharing, but can not figure out how to password protect the File Shares. It seems all or nothing.

I would have though it would be in the Permissions tab but I cant see it!

Cheers

Alan

In XP pro just open mycomputer, go to tools>folder options, go to view, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list, and uncheck use simple filesharing.
You will now have a permissions option on your shares and a security tab on all your folders.

Thanks, I already have that. I must be being thick, so where do I set it for password protection.

Cheers

Alan

Just set a password on the account of the user(s) in the folders permissions/security and make sure the same user(s) and passwords are not on the other computers connecting to that share.

Folken thanks for replying again. I think the answer is I must be thick!

I thought I was very PC literate and moderately succesful in setting up LANS & WLANS etc, but I am obviously missing a trick here.

As I said I have a wired & wireless LAN set up in the normal MSHOME type way with certain folders on each shared, which works fine. However I can not seem to set up a logon for LAN/Foldershare. Either I get in or I don't!

I do NOT have simple set on.

I have now set up a new user on 2 PCs, same name different passwords. It makes no difference, other than now on one client the 'Entire Network' folder under the new user has dissapeared, still there on the original Admin user.

Sorry to be a pain, but if you have the time, could you just explain for say, 2 PCs, what I set up where. i.e. Users, permisions etc, you can be as blunt as you like  

A point occurs, am I supposed to have a workgroups or domain setup or both? Since doing the above I seem to have Workgroup appear in the 2 FileManagers wheras before it was just showing as MSHOME.

Many thanks

Alan